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If you have limited access to some sites at work, school, college, or anywhere else, you can use these tricks to access them.

Whether you’re using an Android or iPhone device, you’ve probably wanted to listen to songs via the Youtube app while doing something else on your phone. The problem is that when you play any video, it stops when the application is not on the screen. Fortunately, there is a solution!

The Galaxy S6 edge plus appeared a few months after the edge model and features, among other things, a larger screen that is, of course, curved on both sides. So we have a Super AMOLED screen with a diagonal of 5.7 ″   and a resolution of 1440 × 2560 px. The fourth-generation Gorilla Glass is in charge of screen protection, but also the back of the phone.

Google Live Traffic is a very useful option if you drive often because you have insight into where traffic jams are in real-time. This option is officially available in only 50 countries in the world, and Serbia, of course, is not among them. However, live traffic data exists, you can see it with a few easy steps!

There are now a lot of Chinese sites like Aliexpress and Dealextreme, and it is becoming increasingly difficult for users to choose which one to buy from. I chose Aliexpress for several reasons, but I did not stop looking for and testing others. I don't use Dealextreme anymore, but I found one quite solid: GearBest. I compared a bit of Aliexpress and GearBest…

This is a Duos model of the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime phone which means it works with two SIM cards. Since it went on sale about a year ago, we can now classify it as a mid-range phone because it has satisfactory specifications for the average user and an affordable price.

New malware for Android OS has appeared that cannot be removed and the only solution is a new device! Whether? Is there anything worse than having to throw away a phone that costs who knows how much? I did a little research on that situation and I will summarize it here.

The Xperia Z5 is another great flagship model from the Z family of devices that Sony launched in September this year, about a month ago. The case design is great . The side edges are slightly curved to make the phone fit better in the hand, and the back of the device has a fine finish so there are no glare and fingerprints.

If you have an Android device you can connect to some WiFi networks even without knowing the password! How? First of all, you can't do everything, but most of you can. Specifically, to those where WPS is involved.

Facebook Emotions is a new option that expands the Like button because, as Zuck states, users cannot fully express their feelings with just one button. What if a post is very sad, Like (I like it) is not an appropriate option for the user. So now we have a set of 6 additional emotions , in addition to the Like button, and these are Love , Haha , Yay , Wow , Sad , and Angry . However, this option is only available to users in Spain and Ireland , but how can you enable it?

Colder days are approaching and it's time to equip ourselves with Gadgets that will make those days warmer. I have compiled a list of 6 items that are useful and interesting and not expensive. Note :  all the products I listed below can be purchased on various sites, but I posted links to Aliexpress because I have bought a lot there and have the most experience.

Those who have a poor understanding of Android may not have heard of these terms from the title of the article, or they have but they don't know what they mean. And those who are a little more interested in this OS certainly know what they mean. So, who is this article for? For users who would like to discover the true power of Android but are not sure if it is for them.

Due to the great interest in the article in which I presented several interesting gadgets that cost less than $ 5 , I decided to compile another list. Note :  all the products I listed below can be purchased on various sites, but I posted links to Aliexpress because I have bought a lot there and have the most experience.

The Xperia Z3 model appeared on the market in October, some 5 months after its predecessor Z2. Like its predecessor, the Z3 has superior workmanship with aluminum parts . The design itself is very good, the phone fits nicely in the hand and the user can feel the quality of workmanship from the first contact with the device.

LG G4 This is the latest model from the LG G series mobile phones. This model is marked H815 and is intended for the European market. It works with a micro-sim card and works on a 4G network. It appeared on the market in April this year, about a year after its predecessor, the G3 model.

The battery is one of the biggest problems with portable devices, so we do everything we can to make it last as long as possible. There are some myths circulating from user to user that are not true and were started due to the lack of information of some users.

Android 6.0 Marshmallow is the latest version of this most popular mobile operating system and brings us a lot of improvements over the previous version 5 Lollipop. However, it is not yet known with certainty which models will receive the upgrade, but some manufacturers have confirmed some of their models. In addition, we can be sure of some models, although there is no official information if we follow the tradition of updating models on the Android platform.

The proximity sensor is found in almost all smartphones and has several uses. He is in charge, among other things, of disabling touches on the screen and turning it off during a call. It was the main application of this sensor in the beginning, and today it is used in many ways. For example, newer phones have an auto-dial option when you hold the phone to your ear while the contact is open, or while reading a message. Many applications use this sensor, e.g. push-up applications where the sensor has the role of counting push-ups by putting the phone under your head and when you do the push-up you get closer to the sensor and it registers it and increases the number by one. Some applications use this sensor to register if the phone is in your pocket and thus prevent accidental unlocking of the phone.

NFC (Near Field Communication) is short-range wireless communication technology. NFC can be viewed as WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G, 4G… but the difference is that it works on a different frequency and has a different principle of power and data exchange.

You can buy anything and everything online, but most don't even know what you can buy for $ 5 . There are a lot of interesting and useful gadgets for phones as well as for computers, laptops, tablets… I personally bought a lot of these little things, so I decided to recommend some in this article.

Mid-range, or mid-range phones, are for all those who want a solid piece of hardware for a decent price. There are a lot of Android phones in this category, and buyers from our country often opt for them because they are not as expensive as the latest ones with the best specifications (600+ euros), and yet they are not cheap ones that will change after a year (below 200 euros).

Wireless chargers are purchased separately from the device itself, and the user often does not know which Wireless charger to buy or where. Of course, they can be bought from us, not everywhere, but some stores sell them,  which I already wrote about .

In the last few days, the main news in the Android world is the  Stagefright exploit. This flaw allows the attacker to send the infected file via MMS which is automatically downloaded to the victim's phone. This vulnerability affects about 950 million Android devices, ie. all Android versions starting from 2.2 to 5.1. Of course, Google immediately released the patch and sent it to the manufacturers so that users could update the system as soon as possible. However, until the patch arrives, there is a simple solution - turn off the automatic download of MMS messages. How?

Your Timeline is a service that displays the history of your movement in chronological order on a map. In addition, this service connects Google Photos and your navigation history to show photos you've taken in a specific location on the timeline. Sounds a little creepy?

If you have an Android phone that has a low battery, and you have another that has a full battery, you can connect the one with more battery and charge the latter. How?

If you are a fan of foreign series, I believe you will like this application. This is an application for Android and iOS devices, and it can also be accessed via the web. It's called TVShow Time , and what does it offer?

Did you know that you can use mobile and WiFi internet at the same time to increase the download speed on your Android device? If you haven’t, now you know you can! How? The answer is: Download Booster You surf the internet over your phone and come across some larger files you need to download, turn on mobile internet and WiFi and this app will use both networks to increase download speed. Of course, this means that you will be charged for traffic that takes place over the mobile network or downloads megabytes.

Recently, Facebook has been flooded with " click bait " posts, and sometimes you don't know if there is something really useful behind that post or if it's just collecting clicks. There is a plugin that can partially reveal this to you. Nothing special, it's a Chrome extension called " Photo Zoom ". What does he actually do? Enlarges the image you hover over by loading the source address of the image . How can it help? Clickbait posts often "trick" users into clicking with an image (in addition to terrible headlines). They place those pictures so that only a part of them is visible on the Facebook wall and just enough to interest your potential. If you want to see the whole thing, you have to click on the link, which is their goal.

YIFY is in the world if not the most popular site with Torrent movies are of excellent quality. They release the latest, and older, movies in HD that weigh more than 700MB for 720p, or about 1.5GB for the 1080p version. The question is: how do they get the latest movies in HD?

I have already written several posts on how to root an Android device, so I decided to make one in which I will unite everything.

The Google Street View option is great because you can see different places around the world in the first person. If you don't know where to go, there is one site that will teleport you to random locations.

Popcorn Time was a great success among movie lovers, especially when the mobile version appeared. Popcorn Time allows users to watch movies from a Torrent without downloading them.

IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) or better known in our country as "Internet Television" differs from traditional television because the signal to the TV is transmitted via the existing Internet infrastructure instead of the classic radio frequencies, satellite signals, and cable television formats.

The recent situation with the image of the Android mascot urinating according to the Apple logo went viral on the Internet and soon attracted attention, after which it was removed, but even that was not enough for Google. After they had to apologize, new news arrives from Google - Maps Editor will be disabled!

The Raspberry Pi has largely become known as OSH ( Open-source hardware ) which costs little and gives a lot. For $ 35 we have a computer with a quad-core processor and an almost unlimited number of possibilities that the computer offers. However, RPi is not the only OSH that costs a little, also one of the most famous is the Arduino, and now another one is coming on the scene, with a price of only $9 ! CHIP is a functional computer that has a 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, and 4GB of memory. It already has built-in Bluetooth and WIFi on the board and comes with easy Linux distribution. Should I mention that it has I / O pins ?

There comes a time in the year when it is necessary to clean the computer from leftover files, viruses, and garbage that has accumulated during the year (or a long time). I believe that everyone has an antivirus that "protects" the computer from viruses and malware, but that is not enough. In this article, I will list some steps you can take to clean Windows and suggest a few programs to help you do just that.

Volumio is a Linux-based operating system and has only one purpose - to play music. It can be installed on any Raspberry Pi model and no additional adjustment is required. You can add internet radio stations or listen to music from a local drive: USB flash, or external HDD, or you can insert it directly into the microSD card where the system itself is located.

You've probably seen that some sites have a new Captcha anti-robot system where you only need to unhook the house. But how does Captcha know that the house was unhooked by a man and not a robot?

Google has launched a new Cultural Institute service where you can view some 3-dimensional historical objects on your computer in your favorite web browser. The items are detailed and you can enlarge them to see even the smallest parts. Of course, they are not perfect, there are some irregularities somewhere, but they were not noticed.

Xiaomi not only broke its own record last year but also entered the Guinness Book of Records as the company that sold the smartest devices in 24 hours. Namely, they sold a whole 2.11 million phones ! Of that, 500,000 devices were delivered in the first 12 hours.

Xiaomi has launched the Mi TV 2 with a diagonal of 49 inches and 4k resolution , which runs on the Android-based MIUI operating system. This Smart TV also has great features, and some of them are a quad-core 1.45GHz processor,  2GB DDR3 RAM, Mali-450 MP4 4 + 2-core graphics processor.

One small script, a simple .zip file that is enough to install and your Android device will work noticeably faster and the battery will last longer. There are several scripts like this (which I know about), so I will present them all here. Note : ROOT is required to install any Mod!

If you have an Android device that has LED notification lights , this app will probably be interesting to you, especially if you like listening to music. The Led Music Effect app uses an LED light (or notifications) as a light effect for the music you are currently listening to on your device. The lamp lights up following the music, and in color, and you can adjust the colors in the application itself.

An external battery (power bank) has become an almost indispensable gadget for everyone who uses their smart devices every day. We know how fast the battery drains and it is always good to have a backup power supply. Power Bank is a great solution.

When we talk about smart devices, especially phones, we have too many choices. But we can divide customers into 2 big groups: those who buy the device because of the brand, and those who buy it because of the specifications. Some people like to have all the devices from their favorite manufacturer, even if they take out a loan to buy what is missing in the collection. Is there the same (or better) device from another manufacturer with a 2x lower price? - Nevermind. On the other hand, these others are just looking to get the best device possible for as little money as possible, it doesn't matter who produces it.

" Superfish " is an adware program with a major security flaw, which was found pre-installed on some Lenovo laptops. However, it's not just the users of these computers who are at risk, this program is "running" through the installation of other programs, so many other Windows computers are also at risk.

Nokia HERE is an offline (and online) navigation app for Android devices, and it's also free. So far we have only been able to install the  Beta version , and from now on the full version where we have a lot of improvements:

How to burn Raspbian operating system to SD card in a few steps. Prepare your Raspberry Pi and microSD card.

As you probably already know, the Raspberry Pi model B + is an improved version of the Model B. And what are the more important differences, you can see in this picture Model B + has 40 GPIO, while model B has 26. There is an input for Micro SD, HDMI, audio and video, 4 USB ports, Ethernet, camera, display…

You know those " click bait " posts with headlines like "..you won't believe what happened.." or "..what happened next was shocking..." and the like? Well, soon you won't see them anymore ! Facebook has introduced an option where you can report such a post. Over time, their algorithm will become "smarter" and will automatically remove such posts from the News Feed. Update 2019 : their algorithm did become "smarter" as they announced, but they definitely still need the help of users in detecting such posts! Such announcements are also called " clickbait " because they try to "fish" as many users as possible to click, and when they enter there is nothing clever or it is some kind of promotion, deception, and the like.

" How to hack wifi " - is one of the common questions I get, so I decided to present here some Android applications that can help with that. Let me immediately mention: in this text, you will not learn how to hack a WiFi password, but how to hack other users on that network. If you still want to hack your WiFi password, look for instructions HERE .